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More sketchy sketchy sketch sketches to practice drawing humans, this time using Revenant as a model. I've been wanting to draw a human!Revenant for a while now, actually - tried it before and it didn't work, and then randomly decided to try again today. About two hours of work.
He actually came out looking younger than I would have liked...I think I didn't draw the musculature too well, so he looks leaner than he should be - and I also drew him at a strange sort of angle, with his body pretty much drawn from the side but his face turned to give a 3/4s shot. Still! Not too bad~
Inkbrand, Nocturne, Mei, and now Revenant...who knows. Maybe I'll be able to draw all of my OCs as humans at some point, or other OCs as well. Always good to keep my human drawing skills on point!

Got inspired to try and draw some sort of formal wear for Mei. She comes from an old and traditional town, so I'd image their formal wear is equally old and traditional rather than something more modern - hence, Mei dressing up in a Hanfu, and taking an inordinate amount of time to admire herself in the reflection of a pond.
It's an old Chinese type of dress similar to the Japanese kimono and Korean hanbok. There should, probably, be all sorts of elegant patterns over the hanfu, but I had enough trouble just trying to design the thing on a pony body, lulz. Any sort of outfit that has a high-waisted style is kind of moot on a pony, seeing as their "waist" is underbelly. Still, it was a fun design, and one that'll probably serve as Mei's formal wear should the need arise.

Thanks to a little suggestion from PrinceBlueblood (the RPer, not the pony), I found another scene to doodle from the Animal Team in the Winter Wrap-Up event thread, featuring Prince Blueblood (the pony, not the RPer) and Rarity being pelted with stray bits of snow and nesting material as Snapshot crashes into the table. Blueblood at least seems to be handling himself with grace...or at least resignation.
Blueblood and Rarity (c) Hasbro
Snapshot (c) Ciraxis

Behold the most adorable diamond doggie! I'm a little out of practice right now and decided to draw some stuff before I start the Peachy thread. This one is a little experiment. I didn't use layers and just painted over the sketch. It's quick, fun, and looks good so I think I might be using this style for the portrait thread.
I don't think this is Riffy's actual hairstyle, but by the time I noticed it was too late. ^^
Riff Raff belongs to Zeig
(There was an error the first time I tried to upload this so there might be duplicates.)

All the Teams!
...Actually, that is all the teams, since I don't have a character working with animals. But maybe I'll just draw another team, because seriously, these events are fun.
Star Crusader (c) moonshineTheleocat
Skyhaven (c) RainbowPony

Hmm...the "Team" thing doesn't really work with Rows, but oh well.
Quick little doodle of Winter Wrap-Up via Row 4 on the Plant Team. I really like events like these - hope we get to see more holiday-themed ones in the future!
Red Cedar (c) RedCedar
Naj (c) DerpRavener

This little doodle stems from a pony art spree I went on a little while ago, trying to get some ideas for pony clothing. Unfortunately, I didn't get much inspiration, because the vast majority of pictures I found featured only one article of clothing.
There were socks, everywhere.
I honestly don't understand the fascination with ponies wearing stocks or stockings (I'm not nocking it, just don't understand it), which is what prompted this picture. It also gave me a chance to redo Fem!Inkbrand again, since the first rendition was...okay, but the actual execution of that drawing was just terrible. *burns old picture*
On an unrelated note, I feel like I'm starting to draw female ponies better. At least making their faces look more feminine than the way I draw stallions. Progress!

So someone told me today that they couldn't find this picture in my gallery, leading me to realize that I failed to reupload it after the server reset. Hnnnrgh.
In any case, here's a speed paint of Garden Gait's iconic flower meadow along the East Road, or at least my attempt at it. And also featuring Mei sitting upon a boulder, because.
Please re-Like if you Like!

Lol, that thumbnail tho. Wish there was a way to crop the thumbnail picture to not be dead center. Full view is best view!
In any case though, here's a second take on a humanized Mei, because I felt like drawing something perky and curvy and decided to just use Mei as a model again. I've always had trouble drawing humans, particularly because of anatomy (I have a tendency to make everything rather buff), so this time, I just grit my teeth and tried to exaggerated female anatomy, with tiny waists and emphasized hips. To my immense surprise, it came out pretty good! (although since she's wearing a high-rise outfit, it kinda loses the shape a little bit, but in return makes her legs look really long).
Don't ask me about the pose. As I was sketching I think I was trying to do some sort of superhero thing, where the superhero is flying and twists around in midair so that her upper body's facing one way and her lower body's facing the other...but then it didn't quite work out, so it just kinda looks like Mei's falling over.
Gracefully, though - falling gracefully like an empress~

More practice with humans and shading, and failure...lots of failure.
"When you try your best and you don't suceeeee-eeeeed...."
That's when you curl up in a corner and rock yourself to sleep.
Pretty disheartened about this one, to be honest. The lineart actually came out pretty nicely and I got really excited, but it all went to rubbish once the color came in. Still, better to push on through then to give up and just leave it at lineart like I was tempted to do. I also figured out that I really need to practice drawing different poses and angles. I always have an easier time drawing characters facing to the left of the frame rather than the right...think it's because I'm right-handed.
Luna (c) Hasbro

I think one of thebiggest things that keeps me from doing commissions is the fear I won't be able to do someone else's creation justice. I hope I at elast did decently on one of my favorite ocs created by another user on this site:)

I was in the mood to draw something but wasn't really sure what. Eventually settled on practicing humans again, this time with a humanized version of my Qilin character, Lián Mei.
One of these days...one of these days, I will figure out how to shade hair. Until that day comes, though...sloppy and lazily multiple layering, lulz.

This bench was by far the most uncomfortable thing Flicker Wick had ever slept on. She wished she were elsewhere. "A nice cave with a warm candle, " she began aloud to herself, then stopped suddenly.
Flicker sat up with a sigh of resignation. Right. No candles, no bits to make more candles. No bits for food, no bits for a room to stay in. No bits. She took this moment and glanced around, her state of slumber interrupted by her worries. Today's city of choice was Trottingham; the population was just dense enough that there was sure to be something good in these garbage cans and she hadn't been here in quite some time. I shouldn't be recognized.
She eyed the streets carefully, deciding on her next move. It was just after dusk and there seemed to be nopony around.
Flicker got up slowly, heading towards what seemed to be a small shopping district. With glee, she noticed an old antique shop; her favourite. Most things that got thrown out from those were pieces that the auctioneer found useless or beyond repair, but what he didn't know is that everything has a price, no matter what condition it was in. In fact, it was in an antique's shop trash that she had found her headpiece! She knew deep down that it was probably valuable and somepony had surely lost it in their by mistake, but still, it had been in with the garbage. That made it hers. Or so she told herself every time she caught her reflection in anything.
The lithe batpony skirted through the shadows to the nearest bin, her long unkempt mane catching in snatches of , making it flicker like fire. Casting another keen eye around the streets, she dug in, rooting almost noiselessly through the trash.
Nothing.
Onto the next one.
This continued for a while until she finally came across anything. A broken silver chain. It wasn't much, but it was something. Scrap metal was always worth a few bits, and all she needed was a few bits for some wax pellets and some scent. This would fetch her about 2 candles worth of supplies. And 2 candles meant more bits, and more bits meant more candles ... Until she ran out again.
In the dim light of the moon, where nopony could see, she hugged the petty chain to her chest, wondering if she could keep on living like this.

Remember when I said five OCs were more than enough for me, way back in my first OC compilation? Yeah...yeah, those were the good 'ol days.
Another group of OCs that were approved and have gotten art for their character logs, so once again, uploading them all in one batch rather than in separate pictures. The only one who doesn't have a character log yet is Revenant, but his picture's done. I need to work on utilizing different poses and expressions...this batch is pretty vanilla, especially compared to my other two compilation pictures. Honestly though, I tend to rush through the character log art in the first place, so all in all, I'm happy with 'em!
Because each banner was a different size before I merged them all into one picture, they all came out looking kind of blurry and unfocused. Larger size is best size for viewing!

I don't usually draw characters for new members or people I don't know very well because there's always that possibility of them taking the art and splitting. But when a new member takes the time to drop 'Likes' all over my art gallery, well. It's less about "have to" and more about "really really want to".
This is LunarDisplay's Starshine, a recently approved Unicorn who's specialty is brightening up the lives of others around her. Hope I got the mane decent - it's described as "fiery", but a reference made it look more wavey, so this picture kind of ended up somewhere in between. Hope you like it!
Starshine (c) LunarDisplay

In terms of bad guys, Revenent is right up there with Heartless on my roster of characters. He doesn't succeed in securing the top spot because he can actually sympathize and care about others - he just doesn't most of the time.
Formally known as 'Northern Star', Revenant basically deserted the REIN after he became disillusioned with the competency of Equestrian leadership (along with some personal trauma that he blamed on incompetence). He's joined up with WRAITH's mission to dismantle and disestablish said leadership, because that's what all the bad guys do!
...At least the cool ones. *emo hair flip*

My latest character, though I'm not certain what I'm going to be doing with him. I wanted to add a dull-witted but kind-hearted character to my roster that would go around hugging stuff, and decided to go with a huge Diamond Dog that's pretty much a walking teddy bear - a contrast of hulking appearances and a gentle nature.
And also a teddy dragon plushie with a hauntingly familiar color scheme. It doesn't hold any meaning - I honestly blanked out on what to color the dragon plush after I jokingly put in purple and green coloring, and ended up keeping it that way because it looks really cute.

Since Bellosh is so awesome, I demanded he let me draw something for him politely asked if there was anything he'd like me to draw. He requested Shadowmane, the mysterious and fear-inspiring leader of WRAITH. She's suppose to be fairly covered up so that no one is able to guess her species, which is why she's got her horns, ears, muzzle, tail, and wings completely covered. Really cool character, it'll be interesting seeing her in RP.
(The Kracken is not a cutie mark, but it is the symbol of WRAITH~)
Shadowmane (c) Bellosh

Re-upload of the random picture I drew of a sea pony to practice my shading techniques. The skin came out really nicely, but the hair was a huge hot mess. My ability to shade hair tends to fluctuate wildly when it comes to painted pictures, I've yet to really settle on one set technique.

The second runner up in my Guess the Pet Owner game - or maybe tied for first runner-up? I think Firefoxx and Dubstep might have gotten the same number of guesses. In any case, here's Skyhaven with her pet snowy owl. They make a pretty attractive pair!
Skyhaven (c) FireFoxx

The first runner-up in my Guess the Pet Owner game. Originally I was only going to draw the pet of the winner, but because there were so few participants I decided to go ahead and draw pets alongside their owners for everyone who participated. Colonel Croaky may not be as invested in Dark Core's schemes to take over the world as his owner is, but at least he's willing to provide a blatantly unenthusiastic fist pump on occasion!
Dark Core (c) Dubstep

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